Quotes about Imagination

“Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.”

“I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.”

“'Perfect Sense' is a film about love and catastrophe, which I hope is a powerfully romantic and emotional take on the apocalyptic sub-genre. Its aim is to be a minimalist concept movie - where seismic events occur in simple ways that ask the audience to use their imagination.”

“And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.”

“Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.”

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”

“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.”

“The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.”

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”

“Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.”

“The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. All good art has contained both abstract and surrealist elements, just as it has contained both classical and romantic elements - order and surprise, intellect and imagination, conscious and unconscious.”

“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.”

“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.”

“The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.”

“Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.”

“Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”

“I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.”

“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”

“Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.”

“It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.”

“Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.”